Jack Gleeson

Talk about just desserts. Last night’s episode of “Game of Thrones,” “The Lion and the Rose,” elicited a rousing celebration from Twitter; as the tweets piled up around the #purplewedding hashtag, it was clear that the death of a key character at the wedding of King Joffrey (Jack Gleeson) and Margaery Tyrell (Natalie Dormer) produced one long, slow clap from the Internet. If you still haven’t seen the latest twist in HBO’s fantasy series, you should stop reading now. The highlights? Well, the wedding was a white-knuckled affair even before Joffrey was fatally poisoned. Indulging his own twisted ideas of entertainment, he’d brought out a troupe of dwarfs to act out the so-called Battle of the Five Armies, referencing both Ned Stark and Robb Stark’s murder to the horror of Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner). Not content with this base-level humiliation, Joffrey baited his […]

In Sunday’s episode of HBO’s breakout hit fantasy series “Game of Thrones,” a major (and majorly unlikable) character died at the royal nuptials of King Joffrey (Jack Gleeson) and Margaery Tyrell (Natalie Dormer), and if you haven’t seen the episode, “The Lion and the Rose,” you might want to stop reading now. Those who did watch the installment witnessed one of the show’s most widely despised characters meet with an untimely end. The cruel King Joffrey was poisoned at his own wedding feast, and by episode’s end, had died in the arms of his parents — Cersei (Lena Headey) and Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). Cersei immediately accused their brother Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) of the crime, which puts him in a quite precarious position. Murdering your nephew, the King, isn’t an action that’s likely to go unpunished — regardless of guilt […]

Another season — another deadly wedding. In Sunday’s episode of HBO’s breakout hit fantasy series “Game of Thrones,” a major (and majorly unlikable) character died at the royal nuptials of King Joffrey (Jack Gleeson) and Margaery Tyrell (Natalie Dormer), and if you haven’t seen the episode, “The Lion and the Rose,” you might want to stop reading now. Adapting one of the most memorable scenes from the second half of “A Storm of Swords,” the third book in George R.R. Martin’s bestselling “A Song of Ice and Fire” book series, showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss brought to the screen the famous Purple Wedding, which ends with Joffrey dead at his own wedding feast — the sadistic royal is poisoned after publicly humiliating his uncle Tyrion (Peter Dinklage). In a recent telephone interview with Hero Complex, Weiss described the Purple […]

The return of “Game of Thrones” is still two months away, but fans can get a sneak peek at Season 4 in newly released images from the series. The sprawling political fantasy series, which returns April 6, is based on George R.R. Martin’s bestselling “A Song of Ice and Fire” book series and has become a marquee attraction for HBO and a critical darling. In addition to being nominated for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, with star Peter Dinklage also nominated for his individual dramatic performance, “Thrones” has developed a massive and devoted fan following. The upcoming season is expected to chart the events chronicled in the latter half of Martin’s third book in the series, “A Storm of Swords,” but will also introduce characters and occurrences from other novels. […]